99 Restaurant Cooks Three-Thousand-Pound Unsanitary Nacho Plate to Help Children

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Well, Friendly’s is dying and Yelp is killing chains left and right. But at least one stalwart continues to thrive: The 99! The Billerica branch of the glossy-menu’d early-bird perch is now in the Guinness Book of World Records for whipping up the world’s largest (and grossest) plate of nachos. But they did it for the children!

Their version weighed a whopping 3,999 pounds. The restaurant admits that the “stunt” was partially to kill people reintroduce nachos to their menu, but the nacho event also raised money for the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Billerica.

The best part of this tawdry tale is that nobody got to eat the nachos. Why? The Billerica Board of Health said that the cooking conditions were “insufficiently sanitary,” which makes us really want to eat normally apportioned food at the 99, too. Guinness’s standards are looser, apparently, and they gave credence to the dirty appetizer just the same.